So this sounds like a pretty cool idea. It seems that IMAGE COMICS is going to take a bunch of Golden Age comic book characters that have fallen into public domain and publish the next issue in their series.

It sounds a bit weird...so I'll let the man behind it all explain it better:

Well, I haven't brought it up here yet, but I guess this is as good a time as any. Starting this December, Image Comics will publish a comic book anthology featuring characters that readers haven't seen in over half a century. "The Next Issue Project" is a new book that picks up where old comics left off.

The idea is to line up the top talent of today and have them continue the adventures of Golden Age characters that have fallen into the public domain. We'll literally publish the next issue of a forgotten or neglected Golden Age book, with modern interpretations of the great Golden Age characters found therein. Sometimes that means super heroes - other times it's a neglected jungle queen, robot, space opera, horror anthology, western or funny animal.

In any case, the first book we're doing is "Fantastic Comics #24." It stars Samson along with Space Smith (a Buck Rogers-ish kind of thing) and Stardust, which is also kind of a space character. The book also has the Golden Knight, which is pretty straight up knights in shining armor kind of stuff, then a couple pages of Professor Fiend, which is supposed to be funny but falls pretty flat. We'll see if we can inject some actual humor into that strip. In any case - it looks to be a blast.

doglips wrote:[Concrete is something I have picked up many times, flicked through, thought it looked great and put back on the shelf - I shall have to give it a go.

Read either of the books I need you to read????

Sadly no. I have been absorbing Alan Moore's SWAMP THING run. It fascinates me. It may very well be some of my favorite stuff Alan Moore has done. Just stunning. However, CAN'T GET NO and 12 REASONS WHY I LOVE HER are next in line once vol. 2 of SWAMP THING is properly digested.

burlivesleftnut wrote:Another awesome list from The Onion's AVClub. This one is about famous deaths in comic strips. The Garfield one is beyond bizarre.

Heh, the Garfield one is really bizarre. I've never seen the strips in question. I remember Bill the Cat dying (repeatedly) in Bloom County, and I remember the panel with the dead bird in Calvin and Hobbes, which was actually kinda shocking given the medium.

Leckomaniac wrote:Has anyone here read Paul Chadwick's CONCRETE? I was thinking of checking it out, but I would like to hear other's thoughts before I start spending cash.

Among the best comics of the last 25 years. The later miniseries are more sophisticated, but they all grow from the same brilliant idea -- what if you were the Thing (more or less) but just an average man without the resources of the Fantastic Four? Chadwick explores the isolation of such a condition and the ways in which a man can live with that isolation. Also, adventures! A few.

Swamp Thing isn't Moore's best work, but it has a warmth that I can't remember seeing anywhere else. Halo Jones and Skizz have moments that touched me, but Swamp Thing obviously was a work of the heart. Also, Moore's first issue was the biggest shock comics had seen in decades.

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky

Wieringo worked with Mark Waid on The Flash and was co-creator of the character Impulse, who would later become The Flash. He worked with Peter David on Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. Also, he drew the AMAZING Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four mini written by Jeff Parker.

Freddy vs Jason 2 (the one with ash!) that we'll never see as a movie is coming to the funny books!

from Fangoria.com

August 20: FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH promo comics art!

Comics that continue the adventures of movie heroes and villains are about as common as those that simply adapt the screen material to the printed page. But this November, horror fans will be getting a comic that will give them their only chance to see a movie that almost made it into theaters but was never filmed: FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH, for which Fango got ahold of the advance promo art seen above.

The six-issue miniseriesâ€™ origins go back to the success of the first clash between the fiendish molester of dreams from the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET films and the unstoppable walking slaughterhouse of the FRIDAY THE 13TH series. Jeff Katz, then an executive at New Line, home of the two franchises, worked up a 20-page treatment that picks up the story five years later, just as the recovering town of Crystal Lake is getting ready to change its name to Forest Green and reposition itself as a nicer, less violent community. Freddy is still trapped within Jasonâ€™s subconscious, but he hasnâ€™t been idle. The Necronomicon has been resting in the Voorhees homeâ€™s basement since JASON GOES TO HELL, and Freddy has discovered how he can use it not just to escape, but to gain powers unlike anything heâ€™s had before. Using Jason as his tool, it seems as though nothing can stop himâ€”except for the local S-Martâ€™s new Home Wares manager, Ash. Learning that the Necronomicon, the bane of his existence, is in town, Ash is determined to destroy itâ€¦and any boogeyman or hockey mask-wearing hulk who may be in the vicinity.

New Line was high on the project, and deals came close to completion, but by 2004, Sam Raimi pulled out, not wanting to see Ash handled by another director. Although the film project was dead, Katz found new hope when he saw A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET and FRIDAY THE 13TH becoming comic-book projects at Wildstorm, and Dynamite producing comics detailing Ashâ€™s exploits beyond ARMY OF DARKNESS. While he urged New Lineâ€™s licensing division to look into resurrecting FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH, Katz became involved in other things, including co-writing DC Comicsâ€™ BOOSTER GOLD. But by the time things had been worked out between New Line, MGM, Wildstorm and Dynamite, Katz found that he couldnâ€™t write it, thanks to his leaving his day job at New Line for one at Fox.

Instead, James Kuhoric, who penned the ARMY OF DARKNESS comics, will be scripting FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH, with Jason Craig handling the art chores. Although Kuhoric has been chronicling Ashâ€™s exploits for some time, this miniseries wonâ€™t tie into them, as it will hew close to Katzâ€™s treatment. If readers have been following the three antagonistsâ€™ film careers, theyâ€™ll be right where the audience would have been if this story had opened up in theaters rather than on comic pages. Wildstorm will release the first two issues of FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH in November, with the rest following monthly. For more on the comic, check out Fango #268, on sale in October. â€”Daniel Dickholtz

bastard_robo wrote:Freddy vs Jason 2 (the one with ash!) that we'll never see as a movie is coming to the funny books!

from Fangoria.com

August 20: FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH promo comics art!

Comics that continue the adventures of movie heroes and villains are about as common as those that simply adapt the screen material to the printed page. But this November, horror fans will be getting a comic that will give them their only chance to see a movie that almost made it into theaters but was never filmed: FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH, for which Fango got ahold of the advance promo art seen above.

The six-issue miniseriesâ€™ origins go back to the success of the first clash between the fiendish molester of dreams from the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET films and the unstoppable walking slaughterhouse of the FRIDAY THE 13TH series. Jeff Katz, then an executive at New Line, home of the two franchises, worked up a 20-page treatment that picks up the story five years later, just as the recovering town of Crystal Lake is getting ready to change its name to Forest Green and reposition itself as a nicer, less violent community. Freddy is still trapped within Jasonâ€™s subconscious, but he hasnâ€™t been idle. The Necronomicon has been resting in the Voorhees homeâ€™s basement since JASON GOES TO HELL, and Freddy has discovered how he can use it not just to escape, but to gain powers unlike anything heâ€™s had before. Using Jason as his tool, it seems as though nothing can stop himâ€”except for the local S-Martâ€™s new Home Wares manager, Ash. Learning that the Necronomicon, the bane of his existence, is in town, Ash is determined to destroy itâ€¦and any boogeyman or hockey mask-wearing hulk who may be in the vicinity.

New Line was high on the project, and deals came close to completion, but by 2004, Sam Raimi pulled out, not wanting to see Ash handled by another director. Although the film project was dead, Katz found new hope when he saw A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET and FRIDAY THE 13TH becoming comic-book projects at Wildstorm, and Dynamite producing comics detailing Ashâ€™s exploits beyond ARMY OF DARKNESS. While he urged New Lineâ€™s licensing division to look into resurrecting FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH, Katz became involved in other things, including co-writing DC Comicsâ€™ BOOSTER GOLD. But by the time things had been worked out between New Line, MGM, Wildstorm and Dynamite, Katz found that he couldnâ€™t write it, thanks to his leaving his day job at New Line for one at Fox.

Instead, James Kuhoric, who penned the ARMY OF DARKNESS comics, will be scripting FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH, with Jason Craig handling the art chores. Although Kuhoric has been chronicling Ashâ€™s exploits for some time, this miniseries wonâ€™t tie into them, as it will hew close to Katzâ€™s treatment. If readers have been following the three antagonistsâ€™ film careers, theyâ€™ll be right where the audience would have been if this story had opened up in theaters rather than on comic pages. Wildstorm will release the first two issues of FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH in November, with the rest following monthly. For more on the comic, check out Fango #268, on sale in October. â€”Daniel Dickholtz

yeah i just read this somewhere else. pretty nifty. but, what's with that cover? it's just pics meshed together from their previous comics... boo.

Disney Adventures Comic Zone has started running a comic adaptation of "The Black Hole" in the current issue. HOWEVER, since Disney announced they are no longer going to publish Disney Adventures, it's unsure if Comic Zone will still be published.

But check it out...probably the most random thing I've seen in a while.

He's done some great work, but he also was responsible for an entire company's crappy work for nearly ten years. Which version of the Legion will Shooter write? His is long, long gone, though I guess the time-travel Legion of "Lightning Ring" bears a lot of resemblance.

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky

They should snatch Steve Rogers right out of the time continuum moments before he plunged into the icey seas. Retcon EVERYTHING about the character and do a mini series on what the Marvel U would be like if Cap wasn't discovered in the ice, but instead simply disappeared at the end of WW2.

CBRs Rich Johnston reported a rumor he heard in his colum Lying Gutters. The rumor is, apparently, that Bruce Wayne is going to be killed sometime next year and that one of the Robins (Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Dick Grayson) will take over as Batman.

Wha????????

I mean seriously....WHA?!?!?!?!?!

Methinks DC was jealous of Marvel because of the Cap America death coverage.